From the first collection (Premier recueil) of Fêtes galantes
Clair de lune (‘Moonlight’) Your soul is a chosen landscape which brings delight to masqueraders and dancers, playing the lute and dancing, almost sad in their fantastic costumes, while singing in the minor key of triumphant love and the favorable life. They don’t seem to believe in their happiness and their song mingles with the light of the moon…. with the calm light of the moon, sad and lovely, which causes the birds in the trees to dream, and makes the fountains of water sob with ecstasy, the tall fountains, slender among the marble statues.
Classical Music | Soprano
Claude Debussy
Clair de lune, from Fêtes galantes
PlayRecorded on 09/18/2013, uploaded on 09/18/2013
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From the first collection (Premier recueil) of Fêtes galantes
Clair de lune (‘Moonlight’)
Your soul is a chosen landscape
which brings delight to masqueraders and dancers,
playing the lute and dancing, almost sad in their fantastic costumes,
while singing in the minor key of triumphant love and the favorable life.
They don’t seem to believe in their happiness
and their song mingles with the light of the moon….
with the calm light of the moon, sad and lovely,
which causes the birds in the trees to dream,
and makes the fountains of water sob with ecstasy,
the tall fountains, slender among the marble statues.
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La Puerta del Vino, from Préludes Book II
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir, from Préludes, Book I
Soiree dans Grenade, from Estampes
Rapsodie (arr. Rousseau)
Arabesque in C sharp major
Beau Soir
Ondine, from Préludes Book II
La Cathédrale engloutie, from Preludes, Books 1, No.10
Estampes
Apparition, from Quatre chansons de jeunesse
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En sourdine, from Fêtes galantes
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